Video Conference Mute - Camera Overlay flipped vertically

[TheNightmanX]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.49.1

Running as admin

• [ ] Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Video Conference Mute

Steps to reproduce

Usa a camera overly picture in video conference mute.

✔️ Expected Behavior

picture is shown normal (top of picture is shown as top of camera picture, bottom of picture is shown as bottom of camera picture)

❌ Actual Behavior

Picture is shown vertically flipped. (top - bottom flipped)

Other Software

Microsoft Teams 1.4.00.29480 (64 bit) on Windows 11 Enterprise 64 bit build 22000.258.

[franky920920]

@TheNightmanX Which video conference solution are you using? Cloud you please attach a screenshot?

cc: @yuyoyuppe It seems weird that the image was flipped vertically. I knew some video conference software does horizontally flip the input.

[TheNightmanX]

Conference Solution see my post. Screenshot attached

[yuyoyuppe]

@TheNightmanX thanks for the report. could you please tell us what's your camera model? It happens only with overlay image itself, not with camera video stream, correct?

[TheNightmanX]

Camera is a Microsoft LifeCam HD-6000 and yes, it happens only with the overlay.

[kgegere]

Not sure where to put this, but the exact same issue is happening with Kinect V2 Video Sensor as well. Checked with the built-in camera, the issue isn't present there.

[Diddern]

Can confirme issue. Canon EOS Camera utility (EOS M200)

[bendem]

Same here, ThinkPad T495 internal cam, image is flipped in Teams (when it appears, generally it's just black).

[Jay-o-Way]

I don't know if this is hardware or software related. Thanks all for commenting with device types, but want to ask (@ggegeris @Diddern @bendem) to also mention what software is showing this issue, and if it also occurs in other apps. (think Teams, Teamviewer, Google Meet, Skype, OBS Studio...) and screenshots help alot!

[Diddern]

In my case it is Microsoft Teams. If I use my camera as the regular input, it works as it is supposed to, but if I select the device "PowerToys VideoConference Mute" it is rotated 180 degrees. Zoom is the same, but it has an option to rotate the image in settings (Teams does not).

[bendem]

[kgegere]

Sorry for the delay. Just checked all apps I have on my computer

Apps that the can handle the camera but flip the image:

• Google Meet
• Microsoft Teams
• Discord

All of these three apps work perfectly fine with other devices

Also:

• Apps that can't run PowerToys with Kinect V2 Video Sensor but work fine with other devices:
  • Zoom (says it can't turn on camera)
  • OBS (freezes)
• Apps that don't work no matter what device is used:
  • Windows 11 (Windows 10) built-in camera app (doesn't list PowerToys as an option)

Let me know if you need any other info
Cheers

[ChrislyBear-GH]

Same here: I'm using Teams and I've set the PT camera as default device. The overlay image will be flipped on the head. (at least in my preview)

[Jay-o-Way]

I don't have a clue what the cause is, but just thinking it loud: is it possible the stream of data is processed in a different direction? Like, usually it would render like western reading direction (left to right, then next line below that) but what if one part in the chain starts in the bottom right corner?

[yuyoyuppe]

@Jay-o-Way something like that might be the case, but I couldn't found any API which could help us distinguish between correct and incorrect stream type. Inability to repro it locally also doesn't help :/.

Marking this as low-priority for now since the overlay image could be manually flipped in image editor.

[Diddern]

@yuyoyuppe I want to point out that it is not only the overlay image that is flipped in my case. My entire camerastream is flipped verticaly, making PT-camera unusable

[Jay-o-Way]

I was about to ask @Diddern (and possibly others) does your camera happen to have a orientation sensor? But that would only account for the video stream, not the overlay 🤔

[Diddern]

@Jay-o-Way not that I am aware of. It does not matter if I use the built in laptop camera or the Canon EOS M200 in PT, the output is still flipped. I would assume that the laptop camera does not have orientation sensor, though Canos may have it.. My sollution is to implement a feature for rotating in PT.

[yuyoyuppe]

There must be a proper way to determine correct orientation without resorting to transforming the stream on the fly :)

[thomassth]

How about just allowing us to flip/rotate the camera feed within the powertoys settings?

[DerRheingold]

I got the same issue :( With the Microsoft Lifecam Studio (TM) the selected .jpg for the camera-overlay is rotated 180° when the cam is muted.

I like the idea to add an option for flipping/rotating the image in the Power-Toys-Settings :) 👍

[jadaml]

This issue happens for me to: Video feed is OK, overlay image specifically appears rotated by 180° (may be vertically flipped, as the preview is horizontally flipped) I attached both a screenshot, and the image I use. Edit: Version of PowerToys is v0.61.1

[crutkas]

Thanks for the feedback but VCM is moving to maintenance only in the 0.67 timeframe. Our team will only directly address critical bugs, security and accessibility issues.

We'll accept community PRs for enhancements.